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- After a decade spent outside of Naples, Calise and husband Giampiero Martuscelli—a hotelier and an engineer, respectively—made plans for the site’s public debut. In 2018, they successfully applied for regional funding and persuaded the Central Institute for Conservation (ICR), an Italian government agency, to oversee the project.
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The Ipogeo dei Cristallini dates back to more than 2300 years ago. The Vergini area, within the Sanità district, since the 4th century BC. was intended as a necropolis, first with the excavation of chamber tombs (via dei Cristallini, vico Traetta, via Santa Maria Antesaecula), subsequently with the construction of catacomb cemetery complexes ...
At the centre of its initiatives is the support for the restoration of the Ipogeo dei Cristallini, a rare testimony of Hellenistic painting and architecture that bears witness to the Greek origins of the city.
Jan 26, 2022 · It was found in 1889 when the landowner, Baron Giovanni di Donato, was looking for water under his palace on Via Cristallini. Four chambers were excavated and a flight of steps built down into the hypogeum which was now 40 feet below ground level thanks to all those mudslides.
Jan 24, 2022 · The Ipogeo dei Cristallini or the “Hypogeum of Cristallini Street” is part of an ancient necropolis in Naples dated 2,300 years ago. It is uniquely Greek, or Hellenistic and will open to the public in mid-2022.
Jan 13, 2022 · Experts are unsure exactly who was buried in the necropolis, but names scribbled in ancient Greek on the tombs' walls offer clues to the deceased's identities. Ipogeo dei Cristallini. “The ...
Jan 28, 2024 · The Via dei Cristallini, the Neapolitan street on which the aristocratic di Donato family’s 19th-century palace was built, gives its name to the necropolis, which is referred to as the “Ipogeo dei Cristallini.”
Feb 22, 2022 · This subterranean burial ground was built by the Greeks in the fourth century BC, and is about open to the public for the first time. The Ipogeo dei Cristallini – literally the ‘crypt’ on...
